We are all familiar with Pavlov’s
dogs. Ring a bell and give the dog a
pellet of food. Do it several times.
The dog salivates every time the
bell rings in anticipation of
getting a treat. But then ring a
bell and don’t give the dog a
pellet—the dog still salivates. Do
this process intermittently
(sometimes providing the pellet and
sometimes not) and the dog salivates
even more intensely. Known as reflex
conditioning, this experiment became
the basis for Behaviorism. This
important theory of psychology can
be defined as the assertion that all
learning results in behavior and all
behaviors are learned through
conditioning.

However, while most of us recall the
dogs and food pellets, we don’t
remember Ivan Pavlov also discovered
that how we learn can be radically
altered by fear. This observation
had far reaching consequences for
mind control in the twentieth
century.

It seems Leningrad was flooding and
the waters came into the Pavlov’s
lab. As his test dogs observed the
waters rise higher and higher, their
fear grew higher too. Happily the
dogs were rescued in the nick of
time. However, Pavlov discovered all
the ‘learning’ accomplished by his
dogs was wiped clean by the
intensity of their fear. After he
retrained the dogs again with bells
and pellets, he artificially flooded
the lab again (this time with only
an inch or two of water); at which
point he discovered once again the
frightened dogs forgot what they had
learned. It was as if their memory
had been washed clean. When he
turned on his water hose threatening
to flood his laboratory, Pavlov was,
in effect, brainwashing his dogs.

The story is told of a conference
between Richard Nixon and Henry
Kissinger in the Oval Office of the
Whitehouse. Nixon’s dog, ‘Checkers’,
was chewing on the corner of the
President’s rug. Nixon stopped
talking to Kissinger for a moment,
turned to his desk, took out a dog
biscuit and threw it down on the
expensive rug to Checkers with the
comment, “Checkers needs something
to chew on I guess.” Kissinger said
wryly, “Congratulations Mr.
President, you have just taught your
dog to chew on the rug.”

As we have seen throughout our
study, America’s adoption of
unreasoned and sometimes harmful
behaviors resulted from our fear of
the Soviets. Our hatred of Nazis was
not so deep that we continued to
shun them after World War II. In
fact, as we’ve shown, the opposite
was the case. Our fear of the
Soviets was even greater after the
National Socialists had been
defeated. Subsequently, we looked to
the Nazis to add new weapons to our
arsenal for battling our next foe.
Weapons of the mind (as we saw with
remote viewing earlier on), were
much sought after too.